Abstract
We considered in a former number of the Journal the chief publications of the Department. The President’s annual message to Congress usually contains a statement of our relations with foreign Powers, and this serves as the annual report of the Secretary of State. A regular annual report to the President or Congress is required from the heads of other departments but not from him. When Richard Olney was Secretary, however, he made a report dated December, 1896, entitled “Report of the Secretary of State” for that year. It was intended to be the first annual report, but the example was not followed. The management of foreign affairs being the most important of the regular duties of the Department, the supervision of the diplomatic and consular service are its chief duties. The general rules which govern the foreign service are found in the works on international law and particularly in the American digests; but two special publications have been issued by the Department of State for the guidance of its agents abroad — the Diplomatic Instructions and the Consular Regulations.
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